Example sentences of "was [v-ing] way to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , Christy 's hitting a wood for his second shot and it was going way to the left . |
| 2 | All that strange ‘ beat ’ talk of the late fifties and the avant-garde personality of the earlier Sixties that had become the language of kids in the coffee bars and campuses throughout the English-speaking world , was giving way to a more cynical view of life and the much harsher realities of the rock ‘ n ’ roll years . |
| 3 | The disappearance of the rhynchosaurs , like the decline of the synapsid dicynodonts before them , seems to be associated with a decline of their food-plant ; this time , of the seed fern Dicroidium , which was giving way to the worldwide spread of the conifers . |
| 4 | The labyrinth of little streets was giving way to new suburbias stretching beyond the old city boundaries . |
| 5 | The Spartan asceticism in the attic as I had first experienced it was giving way to small comforts . |
| 6 | Within the central bureaucracy , sympathy for reform was growing , and traditional high-handedness was giving way to a new respect for the law . |
| 7 | Even in the army , the old stranglehold of reactionary officers was giving way to the increasing professionalism of soldiers drawn from varied social backgrounds . |
| 8 | The spirit of laissez-faire which some see as the root of Victorian values was giving way to legislative control in fields such as pollution . |
| 9 | But going gently was difficult , to say the least , for his active mind was giving way to the essential basic desire for a man to possess the woman he loved and who loved him , and his kisses and caresses grew more and more urgent . |
| 10 | By December 1989 evidence was mounting that consumption was giving way to investment as the main engine of growth . |
| 11 | Dusk was giving way to night and the fires outside the gate burned brightly . |
| 12 | My hand was throbbing and light-headedness was giving way to a headache which made my left eyebrow twitch . |
| 13 | ( Indeed , Conservative leader Stanley Baldwin commented at one point that the United States Constitution had broken down and was giving way to dictatorship . ) |